THE BLOG

Ayn Rand's negative reaction to communism makes sense. However, is selfishness really a virtue?

Scientists frequently personify nature. Is nature really like a person or is a "person" behind nature? Perhaps that "person" is God.

David Fitzgerald claims the account of King Herod killing the baby boys of Bethlehem is a myth. However, evidence suggests it happened.

"New Atheism" claims to be new but it seems to have changed very little in 100 years.

“The order to ‘love thy neighbor’ is mild and yet stern: a reminder of one’s duty to others. The order to ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’...

Is religion really the biggest cause of war as many atheists claim? Not when you look at history.

Many atheists contend that extreme pain and suffering is proof God does not exist. Could a good God have a good reason for allowing it?

Sam Harris says atheism is not a worldview. Instead, it's a statement of the obvious. Is he correct?

Philosopher Paul Kurtz claimed people created God. Was God invented, revealed or concluded?

Bertrand Russell questioned whether Jesus had even existed. What would 1st century sources say?

Is science the only discipline that can provide a perspective on God?

“But the order we observe, which is surely order in the universe and not of the universe, is such that it hardly evidences the marks of a...

The idea of the burden of proof in a criminal court is that the prosecutor has the responsibility to prove the person they’re charging...

“It’s natural selection overshooting that produces religion.”[1] - Alex Rosenberg “Religion can be seen as a by-product of the misfiring...

“Human babies are not born self-aware, or capable of grasping that they exist over time. They are not persons. Hence their lives would...

“There are no natural rights – rights one has just by virtue of being human. To put it crudely, lumps of matter (and that’s all we are)...

“I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, wherever and whenever they have been or will be invented.”[1] ...

Is physics your maker?

“Some of the most prominent scientific figures of the last century have acknowledged their strong atheism: Steven Weinberg, Stephen...

“We have no reason to assume there aren’t many universes. Even if our particular universe is highly unlikely, the chance that we are one...